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An examination of the anti-conventional Canadian poet Bill Bissett and his body of work.
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bissett latest collection since breth (Talonbooks, 2019), its th sailors life / still in treatment is, using the poet’s own words, an epik poetik novel uv langwage n speech about…
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A definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s work.
When bill bissett thinks inkorrect thots anything can happen.
bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit.
Canada’s most linguistically innovative poet takes on the linear binary traps of conventional logic, history and politics.
Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion and linguistic music.
bissett’s metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself.
With heightened and more sophisticated noun awareness, do we come closer to happiness, starring ourselves?
bissett’s deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes.
Through narrative, sound, song, meditation, metaphysical, spiritual, political and visual poems, bissett explores the fragility and incompletion of all narratives.
His rejection of the limiting conventions of written language allow bissett to turn any linguistic event into a living performance.
This fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry quests for life beyond the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century.
sublingual is perhaps the most highly structured yet of bissett’s textual visions. It begins with a short creation story.
bill bissett, who recently celebrated his seventieth birthday, remains even in his biblical years Canada’s most exciting, innovative pioneer in the field of the written, spoken, performed, illustrated and sculpted…
This is the first appearance of fictional characters in the work of legendary poet bill bissett, a one man civilization.
An uplifting novel-poem about love and the overlapping, sometimes conflicting, hungers we all share.
breth presents both new and selected poems from legendary Canadian sound, visual, and performance poet bill bissett. bissett’s innovations have shaped poetry, music, painting, and publishing and have stimulated, provoked…
New poems from Canada’s shaman of sound and performance poetry, bill bissett.
This collection of essays is an attempt by various writers to define a writer for whom brotherhood is the desideratum behind every brushstroke or utterance.
Carl Peters
Critical study of the visual art of bill bissett, internationally recognized as a pioneer of concrete, sound and performance poetry.
Bill Bissett has been a landmark on the Canadian literary scene since the 1960s, renowned as much for his fascinating life as for his poetics. His work transcends boundaries, appealing…
Carol Malyon,bill bissett
A series of literary conversations between Malyon and bissett, one of contemporary writing’s most exotic practitioners.
bp Nichol
Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by…
The publication of bill bissett’s Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv language in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years -…
Bill Bissett,Hardy
This volume features around 100 finely-detailed photographs of Glasgow from the Frith archive. There are extended captions to the pictures and a full introduction is included. The price quoted includes…
bill bissett,Milton Acorn
Published for the very first time, I Want to Tell You Love is the combination of Bill bissett and Milton Acorn’s seemingly incongruous poetics to confront the turbulent and swiftly…
